# Soft Water and Skin Issues

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-water-and-skin-issues/683144>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 7, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-water-and-skin-issues/683144 "2014-03-07T20:31:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-water-and-skin-issues/683144/1 "2014-03-07T20:31:22Z")

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For the last month I’ve been living in a house with extremely soft water. It’s slippery, I use very little soap when washing clothes, I feel weird build up on my teeth, the list goes on.

My skin has also revolted, in a ton of acne. There’s no other new factor in my life.

I will be living here for another 4 weeks, then back to usual house and usual city water.

In the mean time, any advice? Once I realized the issue, I switched to drinking spring water and started doing more facial masks.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soft-water-and-skin-issues/683144/2 "2014-03-07T20:43:53Z")

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Try using hard soap with no lotions added, like plain Lever 2000 maybe?